An exercise initiated to deworm no fewer than 700 ,000 schoolchildren in 14 local government areas of the state this year has allegedly taken the lives of two pupils who were given deworming tablets . Omolaso Keyede , eight and Eniola Oyeyemi, nine, who were primary four pupils of St James African Church Nursery and Primary School, Idi -Ape , Abeokuta, died on Wednesday morning after vomiting and passing watery stools for hours .
The exercise commenced on Tuesday , November 17 , 2020 in affected primary and secondary schools in the state and was scheduled to last for one week.
It was gathered that the deceased girls were mandated to take the deworming tablets in school on Tuesday and then fell ill in the evening. One of them was taken to a private hospital in Odo -Oyo , Abeokuta , that evening but she died around 3 am on Wednesday –the following day.
The second pupil was also taken to the same hospital later but was declared dead on arrival. The development angered some parents who besieged the residences of the bereaved parents to sympathise with them .
Parent of the deceased child stated that she warned her niece not to take the drugs to be administered because of reactions it caused last year,but the teacher forced the child and insist she takes the drugs after several refusal from the child.
Both families accused the government of killing their children prematurely.
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